France

Welcome to France Class!

BONJOUR

We are France Class, Miss Boor is our teacher and Miss Tanner, Mrs Bullard and Mrs Hewitt are our learning assistants.

Summer 2023

Our PE days are Monday and Friday.

In English this term we will be exploring:

• The Poem 'Bathroom Fiddler' by Michael Rosen
• The Building Boy by Ross Montgomery and David Litchfield
• Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

In Maths, Year 1 will be starting with multiplication and division, followed by fractions and place value within 100.
Year 2 will be starting with length and height, followed by position and direction and time.

In Phonics, Year 1 will be continuing to learn about the Year 1 spelling rules while still revisiting phase 5 and learning the Year 1 common exception words. More information about the Year 1 spelling rules will be sent out weekly in our Learning Sharing.
Year 2 will continue with their work on phase 6, developing their knowledge and understanding of spelling rules as well as working towards being able to read and spell the 200 high frequency words and the Year 2 common exception words.
 

This term our topics are:

Science - Plants and Materials and Magnets

Geography - The Seven Continents

History - Parliament and Prime Ministers

Art - Water colour painting

Design Technology - Mechanisms: Wheels and Axles

PE - Dance and Swimming

Computing - Digital Imagery and Data Handling

PSHE - Staying Safe and Growing Up

RE - Caring for Others and Religion and Rituals

Music - Friendship Song

Home Learning

We expect children to be reading at home daily to enable them to apply their phonics and develop fluency. Please use: ‘What is … doing?’, ‘Who (action relating to a character)?’, ‘Why do you think…?’, ‘How do you know…?’ and ‘What do you think…?’ as sentence starters to help develop their understanding and comprehension. To extend their reading you could ask your child to write a sentence to answer a question that you have asked them.

Each week an overview will be posted to Class Dojo detailing the learning for the coming week, as well as suggestions of activities to do at home to consolidate and extend this learning.

Times tables are an important part of Maths. Throughout Year 2 and towards the end of Year 1 children will be learning about and solving problems involving their times tables. To support their rapid recall of these please encourage your child to use TTRockstars regularly.